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Artists · UK Singles Chart

The Piltdown Men

Charting Sep 8, 1960 → Apr 27, 1961 · 34 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 3 wk, UK Singles Chart 34 wk

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Peak Power
1.73%
week of Apr 6, 1961
Career Power
53
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
53
May 1960 – April 1961
Peak Five Years
53
May 1956 – April 1961
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
34
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.31%
week of Nov 10, 1960
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the UK Singles Chart

3 records · 53 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Macdonald's Cave#141826.3
Piltdown Rides Again#141016.0
Goodnight Mrs. Flintstone#18810.9

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At their peak

1960 in music →

The Piltdown Men's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from May 1960 to April 1961. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elvis Presley165
  2. 2The Everly Brothers162
  3. 3Cliff Richard150
  4. 4Adam Faith134
  5. 5Connie Francis131
  6. 6Duane Eddy123
  7. 7The Shadows118
  8. 8Anthony Newley101
  9. 9Johnny And The Hurricanes99
  10. 10Lonnie Donegan91

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.